The photographs of this collection, ''in Una Selva Luminosa,'' were taken during two summer days in Sun Link Sea Forest of Nantou, Taiwan, where swirling woodboard staircases make the steep descent from wide, sunny meadows, through dense masses of trees filled with mist and diffuse light, to giant stone boulders precariously balanced at the very edge of towering waterfalls.

The collection is dedicated to my grandmother, for whom the miles-long climb through the forest was her last major outing before suffering a debilitating stroke weeks later.